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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Is the Government really telling me what or what not to eat?
I mean, are we still a functioning democracy? I don’t know exactly but last I
checked my fundamental rights were still not extinct.

And all this from a person who has never had an anda her entire life. Yes, that’s
right. Gape all you want but a strict
vegetarian is standing right up against this absurd ban. Because this is not
about an ‘anda’ or even a ‘murgi’ per se. This is about my FREEDOM
OF CHOICE. These three words I wish to use more cautiously than any others for
the fear that they have been toyed around with for so long that, unfortunately
enough, they seem to have lost their essence.

Today as an ‘uchh koti
ka brahmin’ I can easily choose to
keep shut and look the other way because the government is favoring my set of
beliefs. (I too feel strongly against people eating meat – and by meat I mean
any kind of meat – NOT JUST COWS. If you ask me, no animal should be
slaughtered. Ever!)

Famous Russian thinker Leo Tolstoy once said and I quote, “A
man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore if he
eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his
appetite. And to act so is immoral.”

AGAIN IMMORAL – NOT ILLEGAL.

Big difference, sitting right there on that tiny little
hyphen.

Because what is illegal for me is also illegal for my
neighbor or his dhobi. But what I
consider to be immoral might as well be a most respected custom in my neighbor’s
house, situated right next to mine.

So to expect, (or much worse, to support) the government in
such crazy endeavors, so as to blow the trumpet against people eating meat is
not only out rightly stupid but also giving it unnecessary control over my
personal life.

For what if tomorrow comes a government which wants me to
only eat meat? If I’d want to open my mouth and rebel then, I better rebel now.

Granted that with our much loved Freedom of choice also come
certain responsibilities towards the society but I fail to understand that how
exactly is what-I-choose-to-eat interfering with anybody else’s business. What
I choose to do within the privacy of my home should in no way be subjected to
governmental scrutiny. Because this is exactly how it begins – the taking
charge of our lives by the very people we chose to serve us – NOT RULE.

Is anybody else not finding it hard to digest (pun intended)
that why suddenly is it upon the Government to decide my menu at home? And why
is the government not bothered about the issues that it should actually be taking
up? And how easily is the government able to distract us citizens by waving
it’s chunchuna of meaningless issues,
almost every second day.

And, last but the most unfortunate queries of all, Why do we
Indians never know, what exactly to be pissed about?